Ronit Plank is a writer, teacher, podcast host & speaker who believes that stories save us.
Ronit Plank is a writer, teacher, podcast host & speaker who believes that stories save us.
Upcoming Events
- June 18: Mining the Depths: Quarterly Writing Circle on Memoir Nation
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June 18: In conversation with journalist Erica C. Barnettat Podcasters NW (in-person meetup)
- June 28: Signing books at Island Book's Local Author Festival on Mercer Island, 2:00PM - 4:00PM
- Sept 30-Oct 4: Writing Dynamic Memoir: From Lived Experience to Gripping Story With Ronit Plank and Glenn Stout in-person workshop in Archer City, Texas
- November 10: Who Am “I”: Character, Narrator, and Finding Your Memoir’s Voice with Ronit Plank - online class at Memoir Nation. 4:00 PM PT/ 7:00 PM ET
From Ronit's LET'S TALK MEMOIR Substack
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Avoiding the Need to Make Memoir Prescriptive
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Melissa Febos joins me for this week's episode: The Project of Looking at Ourselves Honestly
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Moving Toward a Deeper Empathy and Understanding - Jill Christman interviews Ronit Plank
- How much platform does an emerging memoirist need?
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Writing Memoir as an Act of Resistance featuring Timothy Schraeder Rodriguez
Stories save us.
Let’s Talk Memoir is a podcast for memoir lovers, readers and writers, featuring interviews with memoirists about their writing process, their challenges, and what they’ve learned about sharing the most personal of narratives. Hosted by writer, speaker, and memoirist Ronit Plank, each episode highlights different aspects of the memoir writing experience, writing tips, and inspiration.
Recently on Let’s Talk Memoir
Episode 246 ft. Cinelle Barnes
Cinelle Barnes joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about her brain aneurism rupture, writing a memoir two years after brain surgery, the healing modality that is writing personal narrative, memoir as a palimpsest, having multiple memoirs, narrating from the...
Episode 245 ft. Amil Niazi
Amil Niazi joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about the pressure on children of immigrants, outsiderness, striving to change our circumstances, what happens to women in the workplace after becoming mothers, confronting misogyny and racism, The Hard Part - her...
Praise for Let’s Talk Memoir and Ronit Plank
Books by Ronit Plank
When She Comes Back
“An intimate, intuitive, emotionally vivid account that finds hope in reconciliation.” – Kirkus Reviews
When She Comes Back is a memoir about the loss of Ronit’s mother to the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, the guru at the center of the Netflix docuseries Wild Wild Country, and their eventual reconciliation. It’s also the story of a family trying to find itself, grownups who don’t know how to be adults, and what happens when the person your life revolves around can’t stay.
Home Is a Made Up Place
“A poignant and melancholy collection of stories about the constant search for a place to belong.” – Kirkus Reviews
Bracing and intimate, Home is a Made-Up Place is a collection of stories about reclaiming personal power, recognizing the difference between what can and cannot be changed, and the pull of familial attachments despite the toll they might take.